Significant Trigger Difficulty

[SAT QPass]

How do you create a trigger such that when a host is "MONITORED", but the availability is "Not available" you generate an alert?

Status used to be a vaiable trigger value, but it no longer seems to exist. Why did this get depricated? What replaces it?

This issue has me completely stumped as I used to rely on the status item to generate this alert. This appears to have been depricated, but what replaces it I have no idea.

Can someone please help me with this? I need an alert for a host if the agent is not avaialable (such a case would be if agentd goes down, is stopped, etc.). The problem is .last(0) and prev(0) contain the last received values (even if they are days old) so agent.ping is still functionally useless. I would want to generate an alert if a host is added and agentd is not available (so regardless if there was previous data or not).

Please I would appreciate any help or advise.

[Alexei]

Status used to be a vaiable trigger value, but it no longer seems to exist. Why did this get depricated? What replaces it?

This is wrong! The status still exists and works as before. If there are any issues with the status let us know.

[bbrendon]

Status only works for non-active agents correct?

[Alexei]

Status only works for non-active agents correct?

Yes, this is nature of the status field. Of course one is not limited to use the status for availability of a host, there are plenty of other ways: TCP ping, ICMP ping, services checks, etc.

[bbrendon]

Yes, this is nature of the status field. Of course one is not limited to use the status for availability of a host, there are plenty of other ways: TCP ping, ICMP ping, services checks, etc.

Yep. Agreed. Just making sure my memory is working. Thanks.

[SAT QPass]

Yes, this is nature of the status field. Of course one is not limited to use the status for availability of a host, there are plenty of other ways: TCP ping, ICMP ping, services checks, etc.

Can you please explain the proper use of status then?

I have the following item key defined for the host "status". Could you provide the syntax for both the item and the trigger of status? As I am unable to make it work.